Improvement in hopples



SHIVE.

Hopple.

Patented June 29,1875.

WITNESSES ATTDBNEYS.

THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOTO-LITH.39&4 PARK PLAGLNY.

NI'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SHIVE, OF CENTRE HILL, ARKANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOPPLES.

Specification forming part of LfhlSBIS Patent No. 165,127, dated June 29, 1875; application filed May 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SHIVE, of Centre Hill, in the county of White and State of Arkansas, haveinvented a new and Improved Hopple; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of one of the hopples,

provided with a bend, I), out. of the plane of the link, and sufficiently contracted to pass down into the groove a and under the hook a while the other link may be permanently connected with eye 60 These two links, B B are each held in a link, 0, of the chain usually employed. By placing the link B across the groove a it may readily be attached to, or detached from, the hook, while it can never come unfa-stened accidentally, being prevented by the shoulders a a which are formed by the projecting ends of the groove-walls.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A hopple, formed of one unjointed arc-piece shouldered at a and the three links B O B, constructed and connected as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN SHIVE.

Witnesses:

PHILIP B. BAUGH, JOSEPH H. GRAMMER. 

